“Yeah, Mom, everything’s great! I’m totally keeping up with my schoolwork.” I’ll need to pull an all-nighter to finish a five-page essay and study for two exams. “Laundry? I’m basically...

The Residence Halls Association is offering five $1,000 scholarships to students who plan to live in a residence hall next year. “Qualities we look for are leadership, dedication, involvement and GPA,”...

I always believed calling the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita “handhelds” was appropriate. These smaller systems couldn’t really pose any real gaming experience, I thought; they were just systems...

Students join Syrian activist in calling for action University of Kansas — Syrian human rights activist Radwan Ziadeh said the international community needs to get involved in the civil strife and conflict...

With gun violence in Columbia rising to nearly record levels, the Columbia Police Department and local organizations are working to offset gang violence and get local youth on the right track. In January...

A 17-year-old Columbia man was arrested Wednesday morning following a burglary at a residence, according to the Columbia Police Department. Officers were dispatched to the 2400 block of Blue Ridge Road...

Armed robberies? Boring. Drug possession? What else is new? Shootings? Okay, maybe a little more exciting. But with more and more strange crime stories popping up around the nation, the everyday crimes...

The hardest working town in America, period. Columbia was given this title in a new Parade Magazine survey released April 16. “It definitely reflects the work ethic on campus as well as in the city,”...

"Space rock" is something of a misnomer for all kinds of music; the word itself suggests chilliness and sleekness. Unfortunately, it’s a term all too often tacked on to the work of Jason Pierce, a remarkably...

After a constituent approached Rep. Scott Sifton, D-District 96, with concerns about a family member on probation "beating" urine analysis drug tests, he started looking into alternative tests. "Supposedly,...